10-hydrate
|10-hy-drate|
/ˌtɛnˈhaɪdreɪt/
contains ten water molecules
Etymology
'10-hydrate' originates from modern chemical nomenclature combining the Arabic numeral '10' with 'hydrate' (from Greek roots meaning 'water'), indicating a hydrate containing ten waters.
'10-hydrate' is a numeral-based variant of 'decahydrate'; 'decahydrate' comes from the combining form 'deca-' (from Greek 'deka' meaning 'ten') + 'hydrate' (from Greek 'hydōr'/'hudor' meaning 'water'), and has been used in chemical naming since systematic inorganic nomenclature developed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Initially the element 'hydrate' (from Greek) meant something 'related to water'; over time it became specialized in chemistry to mean a compound containing water of crystallization; '10-hydrate' specifically denotes the quantity 'ten' in that context.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a hydrate in which each formula unit includes ten molecules of water of crystallization; equivalent to 'decahydrate'.
The salt was isolated as the 10-hydrate.
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Adjective 1
describing a compound that exists in or is converted into a form containing ten water molecules per formula unit.
We analyzed the 10-hydrate form of the compound.
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Last updated: 2026/01/08 09:19